Sherica Holmon Quotes & Sayings

I spent a lot of time alone as a kid. I've never been an easy hugger. The social conventions that keep human beings separate and discrete - boundaries, etiquette, privacy, personal space - have always been a great well of safety to me. I am a rule follower. I like choosing whom I let in close. The emotional state of emergency following a death necessarily breaks those conventions down, and, unfortunately, I am bad at being human without them. I — Lindy West

Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth — Louise Fitzhugh

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel. — Dennis Hopper

Don't complain about ANYTHING, unless you're prepared to do something about it — Steven Aitchison

Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once. — Jana Deleon

She was not daily bread. She was stardust. Her solitude made her and was part of her. Taken from her distant sky, she must have become a creature as different as fallen meteor from pulsing star. One may ask of the Sphinx if life would not have been dearer to her, lived as other women lived it? To have been, in essence, more as other women were? Or if, in so doing and so being, she would have missed that inordinate compulsion, that inquisitive comprehension that made her Emily Dickinson? It is to ask again the old riddle of genius against everyday happiness. — Martha Dickinson Bianchi

The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opportunities and from local power mindset to global welfare mindset. — Amit Ray

You're like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again — Maggie Stiefvater

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it. — W.C. Fields